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Yale School of Public Health research impacts communities around the globe by advancing science and delivering systems-level solutions for a healtheir world. In this research roundup, we highlight YSPH scientists' development of a powerful new technique for detecting genetic variants linked to diseases, a study linking racism-related stress and increased substance use, how white-tailed deer help spread pathogens, and a malaria clinicial trial.
- January 23, 2025
The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early-career scientists and engineers who are federally funded. Dr. Opara is among 400 scientists who received the prestigious PECASE award from former President Joseph Biden in January.
- November 01, 2024
The Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative, a New York City-based group co-sponsored by the Yale School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, was recently honored with the prestigious 2024 Emery Award by the Hetrick-Martin Institute. The award ceremony took place Oct. 24 at Nordstrom in Midtown Manhattan.
- September 18, 2024
Two Yale School of Public Health faculty members – Dr. Ijeoma Opara, PhD, associate professor of public health; and Dr. Trace Kershaw, PhD, department chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health – are partnering with faculty from two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as part of a new research grant program instituted in the spring by Yale University.
- July 17, 2024
This Alumni Spotlight focuses on Helen Moore, MPH '22 (Health Policy), currently the social justice and racial equity policy manager for the Environmental Health Division at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
- November 30, 2023
The Yale School of Public Health had a strong showing at the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) annual meeting and expo this year.
- October 21, 2021
Yale School of Public Health alumni got a close-up view of the school’s impressive health equity and social justice work during this year’s Alumni Day celebration on Oct. 15.
- June 04, 2020
APNH: A Place to Nourish Your Health, formerly AIDS Project New Haven, is working with Yale University researchers to develop an intervention that uses social networking apps to engage more young Black and Latino gay and bisexual men in HIV prevention.
- August 13, 2019
A new YSPH study finds that in older marriages, husbands benefit more from mutual caregiving than wives and wives feel more distressed in such relationships.
- July 17, 2019
CIRA Fellow and PhD candidate Adam Viera talks about blending his time in public health practice with research.